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1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 552-553
Author(s):  
L. Margaret Barnett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
European History ◽  
Service State ◽  
Garland Publishing ◽  
British National Health

THE PEDIATRICIAN AND THE PUBLIC

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-352
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Medical Association ◽  
National Health ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
British Medical Association ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
British National Health

THIS issue contains two communications concerning the British National Health Service; a letter from Dr. Hugh C. Thompson, who is a member of the Tucson Clinic, Tucson, Arizona; and a reply by Dr. Edwards A. Park. The first two papers are those which were presented by a panel of visiting experts who were invited to discuss the British National Health Service at the recent annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in New York City. The first paper is by Mr. J. T. Rice-Edwards, F.R.C.S., who appeared as the official representative of the British Medical Association. One point brought out in the panel discussion was that the present National Health Service in Great Britain is not the child of the Labor Government, but rather had been agreed to in principle by all major parties. As early as 1933 the British Medical Association had recommended to the government that the panel system which then covered less than 50% of the population should be greatly expanded. The Beveridge Report, which laid the foundation for the whole broad welfare program, including the National Health Service, was accepted in principle by Mr. Churchill's government in 1942. Mr. Rice-Edwards points out in his paper that the profession agreed to accept service under the Minister of Health and also to make the service available to 100% of the population in 1944, before the present government came into power.

The costs of nursing turnover: evidence from the British National Health Service

Health Policy ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair M. Gray ◽  
V.L. Phillips ◽  
Charles Normand
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Nursing Turnover ◽  
British National Health

‘Playing’ Doctors and Nurses? Competing Discourses of Gender, Power and Identity in the British National Health Service

2003 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Leonard
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Organizational Sociology ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
British National Health ◽  
Doctors And Nurses

This paper adopts a feminist poststructuralist approach to demonstrate the ambiguities and complexities which exist in the relationship between work and subject. Recent studies in organizational sociology have argued that the discourses of work, and changing working cultures, have had a powerful effect on the production of subjectivities. New forms of working behaviour have been constructed as desirable, which often draw on personal qualities such as gender. This paper draws on research conducted with doctors and nurses in the British National Health Service to reveal the ambiguities which exist in the ways in which individuals position themselves in relation to these discourses. The discourses of work and organization are constantly mediated through, and destabilised by, the intertextuality that exists with competing discourses such as those of professionalism, gender, home and performance. Although organizational discourses are clearly powerful in the construction and performance of subjectivities, the interplay between discourses means that these are constantly destabilised and undermined.

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